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VDF products fair: Zanotta has released an updated model of the skeletal Reale table by Italian architect, designer and photographer Carlo Mollino. Read more View the full article

As part of today's collaboration with ArkDes for Virtual Design Festival, curator and editor Carlos Mínguez Carrasco explains how the architecture centre's idea for its book Kiruna Forever came about and why Kiruna's history is so fascinating. Read more View the full article

These conceptual cooling units by London designers PostlerFerguson would be made from 3D-printed sand. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese studio h220430 have designed this stool made of recycled rubber. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London architects Grimshaw and engineers Arup have unveiled this design for an offshore wind turbine. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen and publishers Gestalten have teamed up to offer readers the chance to win one of five copies of Utopia Forever. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Competition: we’ve teamed up with British illustrators People Will Always Need Plates to give away four sets of books and platters in anticipation of their upcoming first book, London Buildings: An Architectural Tour. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

NL Architects have designed a conceptual bridge for the Hong Kong border, featuring roads that would loop over each other to allow for the fact that traffic must drive on the left in Hong Kong but on the right in China. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Belgian studio Room & Room opened this apartment in a listed Bruges building to the attic above, then opened the attic to the sky. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A footwear company in Thailand says it has developed a way to bio-engineer stingray skin to produce customised trainers – although the claim has been met with scepticism from scientists and outrage from animal rights campaigners. (more…) View the full article

British brand MARK will launch this series of wooden tables and desks by Dylan Freeth at 100 % Design in London next month. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London Design Festival 2011: London designer Ilse Crawford presents a new collection of furniture for manufacturer and distributor De La Espada at Tramshed this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London firm Zaha Hadid Architects has completed a 330,000-square-metre retail, office and entertainment complex in Beijing (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Designer Bruce Munro has laid out 600,000 CDs on the grass in a Wiltshire field in the UK. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A slide is hidden behind the mirrored wall in this Tokyo office by Japanese studio Schemata Architecture Office. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2011: Swiss brand Punkt. presented this alarm clock by British designer Jasper Morrison at Spazio Rossana Orlandi in Milan last week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Swiss bathroom brand Laufen presents three collections from designers Patricia Urquiola, Konstantin Grcic and Marcel Wanders at the Virtual Design Festival products fair. Read more View the full article

Brothers Tom and Will Butterfield designed a chair-a-day for 19 days during the Covid-19 lockdown, which they plan to pass on to established creatives for them to put their own spin on. Read more View the full article

Slideshow: car brand Mini will present a panel-van version of the Mini Clubman at the International Geneva Motor Show next month. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

DezeenTV: in the next movie in our series of Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents young Canadian designer Philippe Malouin talks about the inspiration he finds in art and architecture and also talks us through some of his own work. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Israeli designer Adi Zaffran Weisler has created a set of tables and stools by combining tree branches, trunks and twigs with plastic during the moulding process. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Cologne 2011: French brand Ligne Roset presented this folded mesh chair by French designer Francois Azambourg at imm cologne in Germany last week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This cliffside home by Dualchas Architects on the north-west coast of Scotland's Isle of Skye mixes silvery larch wood with traditional Scottish stone. (more...) View the full article

DezeenTV: Cologne designer Eric Degenhardt rounded off the second day of our Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents, discussing his move from architecture to design and his love of Castiglioni’s Primate kneeling stool. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This skyscraper by Mexican studio Rojkind Arquitectos is about to commence construction in Mexico City. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article